by admin | Apr 11, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The rumor that the first words spoken on the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell were “Watson, come here, I want to see you, and, oh, yes, what is your credit card number” turns out not to be true, although it probably didn’t take long for the...
by admin | Mar 6, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In the wake the massive data breaches in recent years from Target, Home Depot and others in which credit card numbers of millions of consumers were stolen, many people were very enthusiastic about the launch of Apple Pay in October of 2014. Apple Pay was represented...
by admin | Oct 30, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A recent Gallup poll shows that the hacking of retail stores and the resulting theft of credit and debit card information is the crime that is feared most by Americans – and with good reason. Identity theft, including the fraudulent use of credit cards by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 6, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Largely lost among the news of recent data breaches at companies such as Home Depot, Supervalu and UPS was the announcement by Dairy Queen that a number of its stores suffered data breaches leaving customers’ credit card and debit card information in the hands...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 14, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In my Scam of the day for July 12th I told you about the arrest in Guam of Roman Seleznev, a Russian accused of hacking into the point of sale systems of the Broadway Grill in Washington DC and retail establishments throughout the country between 2009 and 2011. Now,...
